Anders Hejlsberg is a Technical Fellow in the Developer Division at Microsoft Corporation and works on Microsoft’s .NET and JavaScript development tools.

Wait... JavaScript development tools?

Microsoft has been working on its own set of JavaScript tools for a while. Microsoft offers various HTML5, CSS and JavaScript tools as part of Internet Explorer. JScript is Microsoft's implementation of the ECMAscript standard. And Chakra is the codename of Microsoft's JScript engine at the heart of IE 9.

But Hejlsberg hasn't been part of that effort. He's involved in something else, it seems.

This week, I asked Soma Somasegar, the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Developer Division, what Hejlsberg is doing for Microsoft in the JavaScript space. I didn't really expect an answer, but Somasegar provided a few clues nonetheless.

Microsoft could potentially add some new, interesting features to the JavaScript standard, Somasegar noted.

"Anders is thinking about this more from the language and tools perspective," Somasegar said. "In the past two years, we've been (thinking about) and working on this."

Somasegar said he believes Visual Studio 2012 and Blend 4.0 provide developers with "industry-leading" HTML and JavaScript tooling. Microsoft will enhance HTML and JavaScript support further in the Update 1 to Visual Studio 2012 release that is coming by the end of this year, he said.

What do you think Hejlsberg's "big reveal" will be in early October? Any guesses?